Friday OT #1 - Guns For Show, Knives For A Pro

[Angie]

Thanks to @JP4CY for suggesting this in last week's thread about characters with no likable protagonist! Here's his wording:

What's a movie where you like the whole cast and they're all **** heads?

Casts where they're all not supposed to be "good" characters, and yet you enjoy them?

 

[madguy30]

Raising Arizona comes to mind.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Joker
Knives Out

 

[JP4CY]

 

[madguy30]

Pulp Fiction.

Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
I don't know if the characters are bad, but just lots of doofuses.

 

[JP4CY]

Raising Arizona comes to mind.

Dramatically, and I mean dramatically under rated movie.

 

[madguy30]

Dramatically, and I mean dramatically under rated movie.

John Goodman owning Coen Bros. movies is not appreciated enough.

I actually think their movies might fit this mold pretty often.
I don't know if anyone's really all that unlikeable in The Big Lebowski.

Including the Nilists, and they don't care about anything.

 

[JP4CY]

I'm also submitting Mallrats

 

[SouthJerseyCy]

Same answer as last week: Ozarks

 

[JP4CY]

John Goodman owning Coen Bros. movies is not appreciated enough.

@Angie another idea. Best SNL guest host.

 

[Angie]

@Angie another idea. Best SNL guest host.

Dang, yo! You're rocking these.

I've got two from @madguy30 next week - is it okay if I throw these on for the week after?

 

[JP4CY]

Gone in 60 seconds probably works too.

 

[SCyclone]

First one that came to mind was The Godfather. They're all criminals, with basically no redeeming values whatsoever (except love of family), and yet as characters they're so broadly drawn you can't help but identify with them.

 

[Entropy]

Agree, and I'd add Snatch to this as well.

 

[20eyes]

Idiocracy.

 

[CascadeClone]

Raising Arizona comes to mind.

"Why do you say you feel 'trapped' in a man's body?"


So quotable. But you have to watch it a couple times, the first run thru its more like WTF was that? Then it's amazing.

 

[Mr Janny]

Martin Mcdonagh is good at these:
In Bruges
Seven Psychopaths

Also you can never go wrong with SafeMen

 

[cyhiphopp]

"Why do you say you feel 'trapped' in a man's body?"


So quotable. But you have to watch it a couple times, the first run thru its more like WTF was that? Then it's amazing.

"Son you got a panty on yer head."

 

[cyhiphopp]

Pulp Fiction.

Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
I don't know if the characters are bad, but just lots of doofuses.

So my wife had never seen Pulp Fiction before, so we sat down with my brother and my sister in law to watch just a few weeks ago. She'd seen some Tarantino films so we wasn't too shocked.

Except for poor Marvin. She didn't see that coming.

But then she said, "So THAT'S why they changed their clothes!"

 

[CYdTracked]

Maybe 21? Good movie but plot is about counting cards so they all are in on a cheating the casinos. Kevin Spacey's character especially is a real a-hole.